[ARC5] Ht-4 Query

[Mark K3MSB]

That's not true Ken.  A number of staff officers on Nagumo's flahship
wanted to go back after the second strike and destroy the drydocks and fuel
supplies. Nagumo did not wish to risk his carriers and decided not to do
so.  Had he decided to do so, the Pacific war might have turned out very
differently and very sooner.

Two excellent books on this topic are "Carrier Wars" by Edwin Hoyt and "At
Dawn we Slept" by Gordon Prange.

73 Mark K3MSB

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On Oct 24, 2014 7:43 PM, "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
wrote:
>
> What the Japanese very seriously "screwed up" on was that they not only
> missed our immense fuel storage tanks, but didn't even think of them.
>
> After the war, some of the Jap officers were asked why they missed those,
> and they simply stared in open-mouthed amazement that they hadn't even
> thought of them.
>

> Ken W7EKB